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News from Tower Systems about locally made POS software for specialty local retailers.
Here’s a short video on the first-step ChatGPT POS software integration that we delivered to our customers a few weeks ago.
Already customers are telling us they love this integration, the time it saves and the suggestions it makes as starting points for this text data.
We are grateful to some lawn mower repair businesses for showing us that the POS software were have made for bike shops and jewellers also serves the needs of mower repair businesses. From repairs to parts sales to labour tracking, our POS software, it turns out, serves the needs of some mower repair businesses.
Offering lawn mower repair business POS software is kinda new to us, like it is not something we set out to specialise is, but it’s happened.
Using our software for mower repair businesses, people working in the businesses can access some terrific benefits, like:
Now, when it comes to Tower Systems and software for mower repair businesses, you can count ion us:
Prices at $185.00 a month rental, which can be cancelled at any time, this software offers plenty of facilities.
The key to any software choice is to make sure it serves your needs. Take your time. have a personal demonstration. Explain what you need from software. See if we are a good fit. The choice is 100% yours and we won’t pressure you.
Running a successful retail business involves many challenges, one of which is choosing the right Point of Sale (POS) software. With so many options available in the market, it can be overwhelming for small business owners to choose the one that best fits their needs. In this blog post, we will discuss some tips on how to choose the right POS software for your retail business.
By considering your business needs, essential features, ease of use, cloud-based software, integrations, and cost, you can choose the POS software solution that best fits your requirements and helps you run your business efficiently.
Here is a new short video in which one of our software experts previews one part of the the Manufactured Goods part of our POS software.
There is much more to this Manufactured Goods facility than covered. The goal of the video is to open the door in a power function to see if it might be worth looking at in more detail as to suitability.
Tower Systems offers POS software that chandlery business owners and staff tell us suits their business needs.
We were skeptical so we did a deep dive, finding out about their needs and demonstrating how our software serves each area of need.
It turns out that our POS software suits the needs of chandlery businesses.
There is variety in what chandlery shops offer from traditional retail to services. Common in all businesses is the knowledge they have about what they offer and sell. This is one of the ways our POS software suits chandlery businesses.
Here are other facilities in our software that chandlery shop experts tell us is useful for their needs:
Rent our produce business software for $199.00 a month. Here’s what’s included in the monthly rental cost: software licences for unlimited computers in the location, help desk support (by phone or email) 6 days a week (including Saturday), access to a comprehensive support knowledge base, after hours support call access for urgent system down queries, access to our Shopify, Xero and other integrations, access to our supplier invoice import tools.
Our chandlery business software continues to evolve thanks to the generous advice and guidance from our customer community.
If you own or work in a chandlery business and are looking for software suitable, we can connect you with others in your retail channel using our software. We’d also love to find out about your specific needs and organise a demonstration to see if our POS software can be of service.
See for yourself in the short demonstration.
Tower Systems is grateful to serve bookshops with locally made and supported POS software. Here’s a 7 minute video showing some of the highlights of this POS software.
Using our bookshop POS software / bookstore POS software local bookshops can leverage a range of facilities designed to help the run efficient and enjoyable businesses. Facilities in the POS software made for bookshops and available for $185 (inc. GST) a month include:
We serve local booksellers with bookshop software made to help them serve their local communities. Our software helps them position their businesses as locally focussed in unique ways and touchpoints from reader loyalty to special interest focus to local club support to bundle offers. We help local bookshops better serve local readers and those who buy for them.
Independent book retailers are the lifeblood of the community, often at the heart of discussion, gathering and learning. Our bookshop software supports this role for bookshops in a range of ways, helping bookshop owners to serve community groups while strengthening their businesses.
Booksellers have access to:
This software has been embraced by book retailers.
Tower Systems is grateful to the many community groups that have chosen its community charity shop / op shop software.
In support of the work of this valued community enterprise sector, Tower Systems offers its Aussie made and supported POS software for $99.00. This is a price specifically for charity shops, op. shops and other community enterprise retail businesses.
In our work with many different Charity and op. shops, we have found unique and loved businesses with common needs, needs covered by the POS software have for them, like:
Our Australian made and supported charity / op. shop POS software does much more than what’s on this list. See it for yourself, live and obligation free, to see if it could serve you and your business. We’d be glad to show it to all involved in the operation.
Here’s what’s included in the $99 monthly rental cost: software licences for unlimited computers in the location, help desk support (by phone or email) 6 days a week (including Saturday), access to a comprehensive support knowledge base, after hours support call access for urgent system down queries, access to our Shopify, Xero and other integrations, access to our supplier invoice import tools.
The $99 is not a short term price, a limited time offer. It is our standard price for charity shops / op. shops and community enterprises. It has been priced this was as part of our commitment to support good works in local Aussie communities. We are grateful to be in a position to offer this pricing to this loved group of retail businesses.
Here’s a Q&A about this POS software for op. shops, charity shops and community enterprises:
We work on behalf of several local charities. Can we track purchases by their members as a fund raising tool? Yes.
We have a lot of volunteers, is the software easily learnt? Yes.
We report to a board, are there good checks and balances? Yes.
Do we have to barcode everything we sell? No.
So when we don’t sell by barcode how do we track what we sell? You decide the level of reporting you want and that determines the best sales tracking approach.
Can we compare the performance of different categories of what we sell? Yes.
Can we report on sales by product type so we can understand the categories that sell? Yes.
Does the software produce WAS / NOW price labels so we can show what something would cost in a regular store? Yes.
Our manager is off-site. Can they access the software from there? Yes.
Does the software support a loyalty program? Yes, there are several loyalty options that work in different situations from infrequent shopper visits to regular shopper visits.
Can we set a quantity purchase price for items? Yes.
Can we bundle items together, like into a hamper, and easily sell that? Yes.
Can I include product care instructions on the receipt? Yes.
Does the software handle LayBys? Yes.
Does the software connect with my website? We partner with Shopify, Big Commerce, Magento and WooCommerce and offer direct links to these.
If you are connected with a charity shop, op. shop or a community enterprise, reach out to Tower Systems and see whether our software serves your needs. We’re a no pressure software company. It’s important to us that people who decide to use our software do so because it its a good fit for their needs.
Tower Systems launched updated POS software recently that offers a ChatGPT AI integration through which the software generates a product description based on minimal information provided by you.
The goal is to offer a product description that helps drive your sales.
This is one of several carefully planned and researched AI enhancements from us to help independent retailers be more efficient and successful.
Another timely feature is our loyalty solution. Customers are responding well to the $$$ reward offered. This makes sense given the negative economic news out there. Shoppers appreciate value and you can show this to them.
Here are the retail marketplaces we cover:
Here’s what’s included in the monthly rental cost: software licences for unlimited computers in the location, help desk support (by phone or email) 6 days a week (including Saturday), access to a comprehensive support knowledge base, after hours support call access for urgent system down queries, access to our Shopify, Xero and other integrations, access to our supplier invoice import tools.
Tower Systems currently serves more than 3,000 local small business Aussie retailers.
It may be that our software is not right for you. The best way to find out is through a personal live demonstration by Zoom. We can organise this for you, record it with you and give you a copy so you can show colleagues and others you’d like to consult.
If we think we are not a good fit for your business we will say so and wish you all the best.
Email us: sales@towersystems.com.au.
Call us: 1300 662 957.
Learning how to use POS software can be challenging. There is the tech enology to learn, a whole bunch of new words and, often, difficulties with accessing the learning resources.
Tower Systems makes it easy for retailers, especially local small business retailers, to learn how to use POS software.
Retailers using the Tower Systems POS software have access to a curriculum of fresh training videos for no cost whatsoever. This library is available to be accessed 24/7, from home, from work, on the train.
The free to access Tower Systems POS software training videos are what we call snackable. That is, they are bite-size, easy to watch, learn and implement. Piece by piece. Small steps. easy to learn steps. This allows POS software users to jump in on a topic they need to lear about, or to do the whole suite of videos and more thoroughly learn how to use the POS software.
Making training easy to access is a key reason for the success of Tower Systems. Providing learning content that is accessible to anyone regardless of their education or business experience is something the Tower Systems customers tell us they love.
Check out the current list of videos available. But note that this is evolving rapidly with new videos being added all the time.
The Tower Systems POS software video training library is complimented by a. comprehensive knowledge base that is accessible 24/7 and easily searchable using up to date search techniques to guide useful answers with minimal fuss.
If you are a small business retailer and you are finding learning how to use POS software is challenging or are struggling to access the type of training you need to get more form your POS software, take a look at the resources Tower Systems provides its thousands of Aussie and New Zealand local small business retailers. See how we help them learn the Technology biology so that it truly becomes a loved and useful tool in running their retail businesses.
Using POS software should be enjoyable, useful and valuable. easy access to good POS software training is key to this. What Tower Systems offers is a competitive advantage and we are committed to maintaining this with more evolution of our POS software user training resources.
We encourage our customers to suggest video topics. These suggestions really do guide our video training production.
The videos themselves are created by our help desk team – the team providing day to day support to our retail POS software user community. Many on our help desk team have recent retail experience that helps them create content that is more practical and useful for local small business retailers.
It’s easy to say that you offer good training and another thing entirely to show it. This is why we are happy to show any sales prospect our library of training videos as well as our knowledge base. Sales prospects can choose not only the right software for their business but also the right training and user support materials for their business. Each of these assets supports the other. Software alone is not the answer.
Tower Systems makes learning how to use its POS software easy, accessible and useful. Since we only serve local indie retailers, what we offer really is personal and small business focussed. And, it’s 100% backed by human interaction when you want or need.
We think it says a lot about us that we offer videos of demonstrations of our POS software like this without demanding your contact details, without you risking getting on a mailing list you may never be able to leave.
A modest Aussie gift shop was paying more than $9,000 a year for their POS software from a US company by way of EFTPOS fees. They went with the company because the software was free.
It was only when they needed the software to do something that it did not do that they started looking around.
The owners of this awesome local gift shop were shocked to discover that switching to us cut their POS software and EFTPOS costs in half. It was a bonus that our software had the additional facilities they were seeking.
The cost of ownership of POS software is something retailers need to consider if they are required to use EFTPOS services provided by their tech company.
There may be circumstances where it works well operationally and financially. There will be other circumstances where it does not.
This is why we say to local small business retailers, do your research, be sure you understand the total cost of ownership. What is pitched as FREE is unlikely to be free as every company needs to make money.
EFTPOS machines connected to POS software are a valuable tool. Partnering with a POS software company that connects with multiple EFTPOS machines offers the retailer choice and from choice flows competitive opportunity.
Tower Systems connects with multiple different EFTPOS machines through its POS software. retailers choose what is right for them. The company has offers available, retailers are also welcome to choose their own. The key is to make an informed decision about what is right for the business.
And, thanks to smart POS software EFTPOS machine integrations, charging a surcharge can be done, mistakes are reduced, end of shift reconciliation is easier and handing EFTPOS transaction queries is managed with ease. The EFTPOS machine POS software integrations from Tower Systems serve many different retail channel requirements.
The key, though, is retailer choice.
As our gift shop customer found, the saving could be worth thousands of dollars to the bottom line of the business. “Who’d have thought that something promoted as free cost more than something not wormed as free”, the gift shop owner commented to us after making the shift and experiencing the significantly lower operating cost.
We own and run retail shops ourselves, where we use our own software. We see first hand the value of getting a core cost such as EFTPOS fees right for the business. We know that smart retailers appreciate choice. That’s what we offer a Tower Systems, choice.
Tower Systems makes POS software for local independent clothing shops and fashion retailers. This software is designed to help these locally serving businesses thrive.
From engaging loyalty tools to inventory management facilities specifically for clothing shops to insights that help local retailers quickly understand business performance, this software has local clothing shops at its heart.
Made and supported by Tower Systems and only sold to local indie retailers, this clothing shop software / fashion retail POS software / apparel shop software is aimed at local shops that are vital for local communities.
While this POS software for fashion shops handles managing inventory by colour, size and style as you would expect, it offers more in serving of helping local fashion retailers better serve.
There are facilities for:
This POS software for clothing shops does more than this.
For online sales it links to Shopify, Big Commerce, Woo Commerce and Magento. For easy P&L and Balance Sheet reporting, it links to Xero. For roster management there is Deputy and Tanda. For shipping there are several platform options. For digital receipts there is Slyp.
This is well connected POS software for clothing shops, fashion shops and apparel shops. It’s software designed to help these local businesses thrive.
Priced at $185 a month, this software is competitive. There is no extra cost for more terminals, no extra cost for advanced reporting, no extra cost for loyalty tools, no lock in an expensive EFTPOS platform, no extra cost for personal support. Plus, the rental can be cancelled at any time – the business is not locked in.
To help make learning for new employees easy, there is a library of current short topic-specific videos that guide learning how to use the software. This makes training new team members and ensures consistency of knowledge – so that the business benefits.
Here’s what’s included in the monthly rental cost for this clothing shop software: software licences for unlimited computers in the location, help desk support (by phone or email) 6 days a week (including Saturday), access to a comprehensive support knowledge base, after hours support call access for urgent system down queries, access to our Shopify, Xero and other integrations, access to our supplier invoice import tools.
Serving clothing, apparel and fashion of all sizes in all situations, from kiosk to high-end, the Tower Systems fashion / apparel POS software serves a broad range of needs.
Tower Systems is an Aussie POS software company that offers a POS software alternative to the Epos Now POS software.
If you are looking for an alternative to Epos Now software, take a moment to consider the Tower Systems alternative. We do not know Epos Now software and have not used it ourselves in our own shops. But we do know our Tower Systems POS software and we have used that in our own shops.
Tower Systems today serves more than 3,000 retailers with POS software and, yes, some of those have switched from Epos Now after looking for an Epos Now alternative.
If you are looking for an alternative to Epos Now, take the time to note down what you want and what you do not want. Do this before you look at any alternative./ be sure of these things and firm in lines you will not cross. It is an important decision and it is better for you and your business if you are truly sure about what you want and do not want.
Switching software is time consuming in terms of the data and the learning. You want to be sure it is right. We will not pressure you at all. We want you to make any decision to switch from Epos Now to be what you want and in the timing of your choice.
Here’s a bit about Tower Systems, our software and how we do business.
It is important to us that retailers choose the POS software that best serves their needs as that choice is the one that will benefit them the most in the long term. The cheapest POS software may not benefit them the most in the long term, it may cost them more.
If these things matter to you, it may be that Tower Systems is a good alternative to Epos Now. Take your time, check us out.
Now, in terms of our software itself …
Using this software, you have access to:
The rental can be cancelled at any time. There is no annual payment.
Our service is personal. Call us, and a human answers. Visit our head office, and we’ll welcome you in for a chat. Email us, and we will respond.
Check us out:
Thanks for reading. Have an awesome Sunday!
PS. We only engage with local small business retailers. That is our area of specialisation. This ensures we are committed to serving local business needs and not the needs if a large corporate customer over the needs of a local small business retailer.
If you are looking for an alternative to Lightspeed POS software, Tower Systems may be worth considering.
We serve 3,000+ local small business retailers in a variety of specialty retail channels. We only serve local small business retailers. Every one of our customers is as important as the other.
There is no big business dominating what we do.
Also, being locally owned, decisions we make serve our customers as we know that serving them helps us grow. We are not serving share price growth for a large corporation.
But back to considering an alternative to Lightspeed POS, the best way is to be sure of what you want first. Why are you looking for an alternative to Lightspeed POS. When you look at other POS solutions, start there, start with what you want that is different to Lightspeed POS.
Having welcomed businesses looking for an alternative to Lightspeed POS software we have some headline notes about Tower Systems that may be of interest:
if you are looking for a Lightspeed POS software alternative, the team at Tower Systems will be keen to learn of what matters to you and to show what Tower Systems offers.
Here are some other benefits of the Tower Systems POS software:
Using this software for local small business retailers have access to:
The rental can be cancelled at any time. There is no annual payment.
Is Tower Systems a good alternative to Lightspeed POS software? We don’t know. Only you can know that for your business. We will show you everything you want. But the decision is yours to make, in your own time.
Here at Tower Systems we’re a no pressure POS software company. We’d love to find out about your needs, show you our software and leave you be while you consider. take your time. When you need us we will be here, in person, ourselves – and not through an offshore call centre.
Our service is personal. Call us, and a human answers. Visit our head office, and we’ll welcome you in for a chat. Email us, and we will respond.
Check us out:
Thanks for reading. Have an awesome Saturday!
If you are using Vend POS software and looking for an alternative, the POS software from Tower Systems may be a solution.
Thanks to switching Vend POS software customers to our Tower Systems retailer POS software solution we have some insights as to the differences.
But before you go too far, we urge Vend POS software users looking for an alternative to take a beat and be sure about why you want to switch software. Write the reasons down. Then, write down what you want from the POS software you might switch too.
Too often, retailers make a decision to switch POS software and start looking at options. That is too soon, unless you are absolutely sure of what you want / need. So, take a beat, figure out what you don’t like currently, be clear about what you want next and consider the cost involved in making a switch.
At this point it could be a good time to reach out to Vend, letting them know that you are thinking about moving to a vend alternative POS software solution. They may have solutions for any concerns you have. It’s worth checking.
If you are committed to finding an alternative to your Vend POS software, Tower Systems is here for you, in your own time, at your own pace. Here’s a snapshot about us and our POS software:
In our software you can find terrific facilities for handling fractions, selling by weight and length, selling in bulk, selling to accounts, quoting, handling special orders and more.
We welcome the opportunity to provide a demonstration of our POS software. We start with wanting to learn about your business needs, what matters to you. Then, we demonstrate the software, live, going into as much detail as you want. Plus, we record this and share the video with you so that you can provide it to others in your business.
It’s important to us that retailers who choose Tower Systems have made a fully informed decisions as we love long term happy customers.
If you are looking for an alternative to Vend POS software, check us out. We’re a no pressure POS software company. We won’t hunt you down.
For sure Vend POS software has a loyal customer community. We do, too. Our 3,000+ local retail, customers are are a strong community of local retailers.
One benefit all Tower Systems customers have access to is www.findit.com.au – an online marketplace designed to help local shoppers find local retailers with products they are seeking. Access for our customers is free. We have customer telling us that shopper shave found their businesses by doing a Google search and the products they stock and list at FindIt guiding them to visit.
Our service is personal. Call us, and a human answers. Visit our head office, and we’ll welcome you in for a chat. Email us, and we will respond.
Check us out:
Thanks for reading. Have an awesome Friday!
PS. We only engage with local small business retailers. That is our area of specialisation. This ensures we are committed to serving local business needs and not the needs if a large corporate customer over the needs of a local small business retailer.
We are grateful to welcome more MYOB Retail Manager POS software customers switching to our Tower Systems POS software.
While we have welcomes MYOB Retail Manager customers for years, more are joining our POS software community.
Here at Tower Systems we make POS software for local specialty retailers.
Comparing our POS software toy MYOB Retail Manager you will see differences. We are happy to provide a comprehensive demonstration to anyone, without obligation, so you can dive deep to see if our POS software is a good alternative to MYOB Retail Manager.
In fact, we recommend a personal demonstration as the best way to assess what is best for your business.
Here is what you can expect from us as supplier of POS software to your retail business:
Every Tower Systems customer has access to these benefits and plenty more.
We respect MYOB Retail Manager and the role it has played in helping many retailers run their businesses. If you feel it may be time to make a switch, Tower Systems is here for you. We don’t know if we have the best MYOB Retail Manager alternative software for you, but we will show you what we offer so you can make that assessment for yourself.
Today we serve more than 3,000 locally owned and run POS software solutions in a variety of specialty retail channels. While we have been growing our business since 1981, the POS software that we offer today is very different to where we started.
Our underlying technology is fresh and efficient. Our software is entirely developed by us, here, in-house. And, we are grateful to say that our support is all provided by us too.
If you are using MYOB Retail Manager and considering switching our advice is that you let them know in case they have a solution for any concerns you may have. Sometimes, staying with what you have is a better solution than switching.
If you are committed to switching, make a list of what you do and don’t want from your next POS software and the company providing this. Do this before you start looking.
Here at Tower Systems we’re a no pressure POS software company. We’d love to find out about your needs, show you our software and leave you be while you consider. take your time. When you need us we will be here, in person, ourselves – and not through an offshore call centre.
Our service is personal. Call us, and a human answers. Visit our head office, and we’ll welcome you in for a chat. Email us, and we will respond.
Check us out:
Thanks for reading. Have an awesome Thursday!
PS. We only engage with local small business retailers. That is our area of specialisation. This ensures we are committed to serving local business needs and not the needs if a large corporate customer over the needs of a local small business retailer.
We love looking at inspiring retail and Pop Canberra is just that. See why:
Here’s a new demonstration of our Aussie made and supported gift shop POS software. The $159 a month all up price offers terrific value for business owners who want software that helps them enjoy their businesses and compete successfully.
Tower Systems is grateful to serve plenty of local indie bookshops with our bookstore POS software.
Using our bookshop POS software / bookstore POS software local bookshops can leverage a range of facilities designed to help the run efficient and enjoyable businesses. Facilities in the POS software made for bookshops and available for $185 (inc. GST) a month include:
Of course, there is easy to use POS software, excellent insights reporting and more. Our loyalty tools are tuned for the typical frequency of visit in a local bookshop, making this POS software valuable in local bookshops that want to nurture a stickiness with local shoppers.
We serve local booksellers with bookshop software made to help them serve their local communities. Our software helps them position their businesses as locally focussed in unique ways and touchpoints from reader loyalty to special interest focus to local club support to bundle offers. We help local bookshops better serve local readers and those who buy for them.
Beyond the bookshop, our seamless Shopify link helps local booksellers sell online easily and professionally … enabling them to play in the online world and reach shoppers way beyond their local catchment area. We are proud to have delivered bookshop software connected websites that are doing this.
Tower Systems has offered bookshop POS software / bookstore POS software for many years. We are grateful to our customer community for their support and their guidance on ways we can make our software more useful.
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